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A Love Letter to Destiny 2: Saying Goodbye to the Light · D-constructing Topics

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  Yo, what's going on, ladies and gentlemen? What's going on, folks?
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  And everybody in between, welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  My name is David, and I'm your host, the host of this wonderful, legendary podcast.
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  And today, you know, don't mind me. I, you know, I came from a little so-called jogging, in a sense.
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  I'm like, you know what? Let me get my creative juices.
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  And I'm like, let me, you know, do a little run, get something.
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  And I'm like, you know what?
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  I could just be like, all right, just clean myself. I'm a little bit with some
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  grass here because things are about to get a little, a little,
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  just a little bit of moisture.
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  I just needed something to get out of my chest in regards to the Destiny 2 situation.
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  And once again, for those who are joining in, welcome to the Deconstructed Topic
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  Podcast. Today, we got a definite good one.
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  For those people out there that know me personally and
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  for those people who have been following in
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  my channel and might not know me personally hey if you're listening
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  to me by all means you know what your
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  family and one of the things that i have said uh before
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  it's my enjoyment or my me
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  enjoying video gaming um as a little kind of form of my form of entertainment
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  and i'm an og dude when i say og i'm talking about nes uh sega genesis super
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  nintendo sega genesis those other Oh, yo, chill. Relax, David.
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  Relax, my boy. But you already know PlayStation and.
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  Perhaps the greatest, the greatest console of all time, PlayStation 2.
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  Hey, and I'm a Microsoft Xbox dude playing currently on the Xbox Series X.
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  You already know we make it happen. And today I got like a little kind of little
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  love letter and kind of love, loss, love, whatever letter to Destiny 2.
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  Hearing the news about June 9th being the last time that Bungie,
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  the developer of Destiny 2, will be like, hey, no mas, no more.
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  No more content, no more whatever. Final update.
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  So, Guardians, please bear with me. Because we might have a tier or two, maybe, perhaps.
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  And the reason why I'm doing this podcast is, first and foremost,
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  for the people out there just like me who have enjoyed Destiny 2,
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  who have enjoyed Destiny, But we're talking about Destiny 2.
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  You know, Destiny 2, hey, listen, it's more than just a game for some people.
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  It's more than just words. It's more about the Guardians, the Ghosts, whatever it is.
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  And look, listen, I'm not going to try to go in details here because I'll be the first one to say.
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  Destiny 2 was created for players like me who just want to log in and have some fun.
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  Sometimes I did strikes, whatever, multiplayer match, all this good stuff,
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  you know, and just enjoyed it.
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  Now I try to reel in some of my people, some of my buddies out there,
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  but you know, sadly, destiny is not for everybody. I get it.
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  I get it, but that's why I want to discuss this and a little disheartening,
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  if you will, that Bungie's kind of decided to say, you know what?
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  We got this new game marathon that might not be up to part or it might not be
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  at its best or whatever it is, but if we put some work here,
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  perhaps that could be there and then.
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  Leave Destiny 2 because Destiny 2 is, again, it's an escape for people.
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  It's a legacy. it's one of those games you got the you know the Call of Duties
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  for the sports fan you got the Mannings the 2K sports and all that good stuff
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  you know for some people out there who you know hey listen I get it Battlefield multiplayer,
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  you know got a war for those single player people you know we could go on and
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  on and so forth and Destiny 2 was that game hey listen I,
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  had a long day at work 9 hours you been there I've been there,
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  you know we had a rough week and what we do
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  Like me, hey, listen, I'm a Mondays through Friday type of worker,
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  and there are many weekends, many weekends that I went and played my little
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  Destiny 2, and I said to myself, wow, I'm having a good time.
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  I'm enjoying myself playing by myself.
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  I was more of a solo player.
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  Did a couple of raids here and there, invited people in those Destiny 2 forums.
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  Hey, listen, you want to link up? I did play Destiny 2 on the PlayStation 4,
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  but for the most part, you know, Xbox, Xbox, and Xbox. Hey, listen, I'm a Sony.
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  I was a Sony dude. I'm not saying I'm, you know, never going to play a PlayStation again.
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  But again, it's just to tell you how much I enjoy this game.
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  I was playing this game in two platforms. Let's go.
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  But anyways, that's what's going on with Destiny being an OG.
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  It kind of hurts. And, you know, and...
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  How can I say? Again, I have not played this game in quite a while because I
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  just felt like, yes, the game was made and tailored for people to want that you win, you win.
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  But sadly, the game was started to become more like you're losing players.
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  You know what I'm saying? And I want to say is this in regards to Destiny and Destiny 2.
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  Problem and then you know obviously when the game started back in 2000 when
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  it launched in 2017 i mean it took a while to get traction
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  uh what they call the vanilla time i mean it was just like
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  what the hell it sounds like good idea
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  it was just so simple but once you know
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  it started to kind of like kick in like
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  hey all right what we got here and again
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  and i and i want to kind of take you in that perspective of
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  someone who's an og from the nintendo days you
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  know what i mean and i'm pretty show this those in the uh elders
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  out there who have played destiny i've seen i forgot there
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  was this uh i believe it's something grandpa i see them in
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  twigs playing destiny too i'm just hoping that that's him
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  but shout out to him and you know put in the work because look when it comes
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  to gaming and i always explain to people i know that people historically have
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  said oh that so that's all you do is stay home and play video games i'm just
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  saying no i don't you know i balance my life,
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  But if I was to pick an entertainment while I'm home,
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  you know, that for me, and I know a lot of people that have done that,
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  it's, hey, listen, game it, game it.
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  I could sit down and watch movies. I could sit down and do this.
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  I could do this. I could do that.
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  But, you know, you put in that work on gaming or whatever it is.
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  But, hey, listen, please hear me out. I do live a very balanced life. So relax out there.
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  But if you're out there just living on balance, dedicated to a destiny to,
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  by all means, then this is where it kind of baffled me in regards to Bungie's decision.
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  Because, you know, one can make the argument that, hey, listen,
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  We kind of forgot, you know, like, what more can we do in Destiny 2?
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  You know, creative juices, and we're going to go from here to this game called Marathon.
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  And I'm saying to myself, right, valid, fair argument.
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  But one can also, like, Destiny community, and then, you know,
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  look, and I've come across many streamers on Destiny when it comes to,
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  you know, the people that show love to destiny 2
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  and be there i mean uh there's some individuals that
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  play this game hardcore i know that pecky tv out
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  there doing the thing on the multiplayers or whatever it is i
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  came across uh they dado or something to that effect i mean these are people
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  that put in work when it comes to the game in itself you got some of the old
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  school fellas playing king the giant or whatever his name is i mean because
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  i've again coming across destiny and coming across, no pun intended,
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  Astro Cross as an individual that I've, you know, he's kind of like my go-to
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  guy where I'm living destiny too, but he's telling me, you know,
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  what's the feedback, whatever it is.
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  Hey, by all means, you know, so shout out to those folks out there and Astro
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  Cross and King Calive and all that.
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  And I could understand where these folks are coming in and feeling a certain
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  way about, wait a minute. so.
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  Yes, Destiny 2 has been dying in a sense for quite a while, but you're going
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  to tell me, and again, I'm going back to the point that I was going to make
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  here, is that can you turn Destiny 2 into kind of a Call of Duty,
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  kind of like when it comes to the sport, John Madden and the Madden football
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  and then the 2K, where, look, if you look at those people, you know,
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  those games, they got this hardcore, I'm not going to say hardcore, but very loyal fan base.
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  Destiny at least at least could get
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  a hundred thousand loyal players
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  so what does that mean every year you could come up with some type of model
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  because even the people in the madden community 2k call of duty they're gonna
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  there's people that are gonna complain about the game it's the same so on the
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  only thing difference is the roster whatever it is but the fact that the game
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  comes out, and then once it comes out,
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  they throw in a little bit of content just to get people rolling,
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  depending on what game modes it is, whatever it is, on Call of Duty.
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  But the fact is this, that the motto is every year they come out with something.
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  And perhaps Destiny could have come out with something where it's kind of like
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  a season, like a sports season in a sense that you come out with some content.
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  Whether the content is good or not, the fact that there are players who,
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  especially if you are loyal, especially those in a Destiny 2 community, they'll play the game.
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  They'll stay loyal because it's better to have content than no content.
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  And just throw it, you know, even if it's garbage content, I know that in the
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  multiplayer, we've seen some stuff.
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  I was one that I enjoy the multiplayer, but, you know, you start playing the
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  same thing and the same maps and the same modes and, you know,
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  you just got a handful of both, especially me. Hey, listen, again, I'm dolo dolo.
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  When I say dolo, dolo means I'm playing solo. But the fact that just add something,
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  just mess with it, and then you would have these fans because the fact is this.
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  You're going to tell me, and look, with all respect to these developers.
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  You know, some of these folks, they work hard.
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  They get the top dollars or whatever the case might be. They get some dollars or whatever it is.
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  But they, you know, sit there and say, you know what, let me listen to what
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  the destiny 2 fans want and many of them have said content content content,
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  i mean you know good storylines i mean the i remember the last time i put a
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  lot of work you know with all the respect was during the uh wish queen and all
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  that good stuff the life fall thing yeah that that may uh i i just went to this
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  map i mean this this world and there was this, you know,
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  tall dude and some other dude and a tall dude was kind of corny.
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  I forgot what's the name of the people.
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  Very glowy, whatever it is, and there's surfboards. I'm like,
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  again, I'm going to say this.
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  I'm a hardcore casual Destiny 2 fan.
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  Oh, I was. You know, we're honest. Again, I'm just going to be straight up here,
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  but I just felt like I needed to say something about Destiny 2 because, again, Again,
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  if this game somewhere did something, did something,
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  you know, the fans would just stay there and you would have a kind of a model
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  of Call of Duty that, again, even in Call of Duty, you could crap on Call of Duty.
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  You know, Call of Duty, I'm not a big fan of Call of Duty.
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  You know, I'm more like a Battlefield type of person. You know what I'm saying?
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  You know, because I came from the old school.
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  I came from the old school. I did say BS2, the greatest council of all time. I did say that, right?
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  But the fact is this, that PS2 in itself, there was a game called SoCon.
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  So, you know, so you get the chance. I'm more like, hey, hands on,
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  you know, boots on the ground type of deal.
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  And Destiny 2 could have been something where you have this model that people
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  come back every year, like a season, like something, something.
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  You know, I know people say, well, David, you know, they had seasonal package,
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  whatever, expansion, so on and so forth.
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  But again, there's something that comes to where you can create something small but different.
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  You don't have to go all crazy and tell people, hey, well, if you want to play
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  the latest and the greatest, you got to spend an expansion for $30.
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  You know, that's what every year. I know that the consensus was that,
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  oh, well, you could be spending $60 on Call of Duty every year.
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  But again, if you look at Call of Duty, the maps, all that, you know,
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  again, even if I'm not a big fan of the Call of Duty like that anymore,
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  but the fact that people went back because there was something,
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  there was something, you know what I'm saying? There was something.
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  Yes, I commend the expansion and the campaign and whatever, but what came more after that?
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  What, you know, more strikes, perhaps, more raids? Sure.
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  Shout out to the raid plays out there. My guardians.
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  More of this. more multiplayer maps i mean
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  i guess the multiplayer map somebody forgot to keep
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  that going i had fun on multiplayer the fact
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  that destiny wherever you go there's always this reward there's always this
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  thing to do there's always something came out of it the storyline for the most
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  part top notch the characters top notch you know people ask me which my favorite
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  characters and so on what was it the grifter,
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  All right, all right, all right, here's the good name. You know,
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  claim that boat, whatever it is. I'm sorry. Hey, listen.
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  It's on my mind. I don't want people to be like, is this guy just jumping on
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  the bandwagon and talking about Destiny 2? No.
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  Just trust me. I got people that will vouch for me that, hey,
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  I was putting work on Destiny 2. A lot of work.
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  Because it was my go-to game.
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  It was my escape.
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  Like, nothing matters to me. whatever issues that had
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  in life destiny was
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  that word like you played the sound you you know
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  the orchestra the music all that the storyline the fact that destiny 2 was one
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  of those few games that whichever the character is what they call the npcs yeah
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  you relate you want to talk to them.
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  But, okay, that's what happened when you was what?
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  And your sister what? And your brother what? And your father this what?
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  You know, and that person became a queen. And, you know, I'm just saying,
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  Sabathone, all that, you know, all that.
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  Gambit, that's the move for the grifter. The grifter? Yes.
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  All right, all right, all right. I'm going to flavor corn. Hey,
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  baby. You already know. But the fact is this.
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  Destiny had a charm to it. A charm to it that you like on.
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  And for some reason, and this is just me. I'm in New York. You know what I mean? New York City.
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  And for some reason, when it's fall time, I get this sense of destiny because
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  I, to me, autumn is the most vibrant,
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  I can not say the most vibrant season
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  to me with the colors of the leaves falling and all that good stuff.
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  And it, to me, it was like, Destiny was just this vibrant game that behind it,
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  there's going to be a dark story with this, you know, the story behind the light,
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  the dark, the ghost, the ghost.
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  What's his name? The guy that got killed, Clyde, Clyde, Clyde 6,
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  whatever, K6 or whatever the cage might be. That was a sad story.
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  I think he gets, he comes back. I don't know. I know there was something going on.
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  And again, this is just me, Destiny, in a nutshell that sadly,
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  when I started to kind of break apart a little bit, I mean, between playing
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  the game, because, you know, I get caught up with all the games,
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  obviously, when I come back to Destiny,
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  it's like, it's a little bit overwhelming.
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  And I think that that's one of the things that I
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  always remember with Destiny that it was
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  hard for new players to come in because the
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  other thing too is that you know the Destiny 2 for
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  the most part there's certain parts that became free but in
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  order to play Destiny it became like well you still got
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  to spend money on these expansion and so
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  on and so forth see they never got that right
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  destiny to me and again
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  and i could get it because i think uh the
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  other game that a lot of people play that kind of compare destiny and
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  another beautiful game and crazy it's a free game which is warframe but it's
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  still a thing compared to destiny 2 i'm just saying but the fact that you know
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  game like warframe people get overwhelming but once you start getting the mechanics
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  of this and what's the concept, then you could understand.
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  My understanding at Destiny was not that type of game.
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  And even me, as someone who understand Destiny and play Destiny for so much
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  that when I log on to Destiny, you'll be like.
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  You get a little bit overwhelmed. Destiny is a beautiful game.
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  Destiny 2 was a beautiful game.
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  But just like Astro Cross that the other day, he's like, and I think that he
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  did the video that kind of give people the hope that perhaps maybe it's all bruised.
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  And then when you log on to June 9th, you get a logo that says D3.
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  That'll be funny. That'll be crazy. that would be one of the best marketing
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  thing because you know you kind of get in a sense of a lot of these voice actors
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  that coming up that would you know that voice uh some of the characters on destiny
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  2 talking about all in unison about this that and that and that and that you'd be like,
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  but i don't want to give myself a lot of hope no i would give other players hope it is what it is.
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  If this is the end of Destiny 2, then it's the end of Destiny 2.
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  Would I try to join the bandwagon on June 9th, you know, for the first time
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  in months to play Destiny 2? Why not?
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  Why not? Let me get live on there and do a little bit of thing. I don't know.
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  I'll say, why not? Again, I did enjoy Destiny 2.
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  It is this podcast and it's up. It's a little bit of, how can I say,
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  It's a little love letter. At the same time, it's not.
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  It's kind of like disappointing, sincerely, disappointment.
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  Am I a little bit disappointed to the way this game is going to whatever it is? Absolutely.
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  Because even if eventually I wanted to go back to Destiny 2,
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  but there was something that when you log on, you felt like it.
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  You felt like the passion was not there.
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  You felt like it. You know, you hear some of these developers in Bungie and
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  just you could tell that, damn, they're doing something different.
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  And, you know, when Marathon came out, you know, came out, you felt that it
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  was something different.
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  And I could see, ah, OK, you guys put more work on this. I get it. I get it. I get it.
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  But always remember who put you on the map, Bungie. Now, yes,
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  you could go back to Halo.
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  For those people out there You know They created the Halo games All the way
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  to my understanding Halo 3 and Breach Breach, whatever it is,
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  But your brainchild was destiny too Even from the day of Halo Imagine this,
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  What an irony And what a sad way,
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  This is how life comes You're doing the Halo And you lost the passion for it
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  Because you wanted to create destiny And historically, what you do,
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  you created your brainchild, your beautiful child of destiny,
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  destiny one, destiny two, and you lose love of it. And then you create marathon.
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  Now, destiny got you where you are.
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  Don't forget that, Bungie. Do not forget that.
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  Hopefully, Marathon will work out that, you know, you'll get some money to perhaps
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  decide to make a Halo Destiny 3.
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  But anyways, my folks, feel free to hit the like button, which I did not say that.
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  I just was running on some adrenaline and some emotions here to make this beautiful podcast.
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  Once again, the Deconstructed Topics podcast. Follow my YouTube.
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  I'm all over the Spotify, Apple's, and all that good stuff. Shout out to Astro
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  Cross, King Goliath, Dado, and all those players out there that put in the work,
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  still put in the work, and still talking about destiny because, hey, listen, it's hard.
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  It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
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  All right, let's make it happen. And I'm out of here. Peace. Take care.
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  Stay vigilant, my guardians. Stay legendary, my guardians. Let's go.